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Social Media in the Age of Misinformation, Part 3. "Disinformation and Fake News: What It Is and How Can We Fight It?"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
In this Meet the Author webinar, Naresh Agarwal, the author of 'Exploring Context in Information Behavior: Seeker, Situation, Surroundings, and Shared Identities' published by Morgan & Claypool will talk about his book and the importance and role of ...
Meet the Editors – Successfully Publishing in Information Science
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Publishing in a scholarly journal often seems complicated and challenging, particularly for the new researchers and academics, who are expected to produce high quality papers from the outset of their careers.
Research Context and Research Chemistry: Information Literacy, Scholarly Publishing, and Data Management in the Chemistry Curriculum
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Exponential growth in the number of chemistry publications [1] produced each year has made sorting through research topics increasingly difficult. This growth does have the advantage of exposing some of the flaws in the publication process that future ...
Beyond The Valley (Meet the Author Series)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
In this webinar Ramesh Srinivasan will discuss his provocative book where describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities.
Blockchain Buzz: Hype, Speculative Applications, and Implications for the Information Professions (Meet the Authors Series)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The blockchain investigation coordinated by the San Jose State University iSchool provided clear directives to build use cases that test scalability and usefulness.
How KM Can Team Up With AI to Fight Fake News
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
In a post-truth world, objective facts have less influence on opinions and decisions than emotions and personal beliefs. People deliberately select those facts and data that support their preferred conclusions and classify any information that contradicts.
The Birth of the CIA and ASIS&T: A Backstory and Overview of America’s Information Wars (Meet the Authors Series)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The presentation will describe how the author came to explore the relationship of information science’s new methods and practitioners of the 1940s and 1970s to the emergence of the United States’ modern intelligence apparatus...
